TWISTED GAME
by LonelyWalker
Disclaimer: Not mine, no money... Wait a minute! Scratch that! Mayagawa and Kawatachi ARE MINE! I made them from the start! Lalalalaa, now I'm happy. I own something! Also the code names are mine.
AN: This is a twisted sort of story where you can see all the people in Digimon, but the REAL story is hidden. I had to try if I could make this kind of fic! In this chapter you wouldn't believe it has anything to do with the Digimon. No names (except the names I won't use much in the rest of the chapters) are told besides Taichi's. This idea came to me right out of the blue. I hope it works. OH! And thank you Manami-chan! You are seriously the kindest and best friend I could ever have.
Prologue
It was an early morning in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. The city was starting come alive after the few hours of silence between the last late night people and the first early morning people in the infamous web of streets and alleys in the city of almost 40 million people. However, in one harmless -looking building, or more exactly in its scan proof basement, a group of engineers and specialists were already working. Or should we say, still working.
If you have seen Startreck or other science fiction movies, you could compare this very secret -looking technological miracle basement to to the main decks in the great ships, only it was much bigger. Or then you could compare it to the evil's lare in the American comic –books. Of course some might say it looks like the ground control –hall in the Nasa base. All these are quite correct, in a way.
The air in the large hall was full of announcements, reports said in dry, exact voices, and the constant humming of the machines and computers. There seemed to be no hurry in anywhere, though the atmosphere was tense.
All this was watched and controlled by a man, sitting in the throne like chair in the back wall. Even if he seemed only to sit and listen and sometimes talk with guiet voice to a man who then nodded and left from his side to full his orders, he had the kind of power around him that told everyone he was in control of everything happening in the room.
Mayagawa Hiroshi was the man behind the criminal organization holding the yakuzas and other criminal groups in his leash. He was the source of money and information in the underworld of Tokyo. The group of elite assassins, called the Fireflies, were the reason no one dared to defy him. No one who got in his way got away alive.
Mayagawa-san was very much the Emperor of Crime. He knew everything there was to know about everything. His webs were everywhere. For example, if a man dropped a coin in the mall, lets say in Shibuya, he got to know about it five seconds later. Of course this sounds exaggerating but if he wanted to know what coin it was, what year it was made or what was the shoe size of the man who dropped it, he found it out. Yes, if someone knew about something it was him.
He had practically ruled Tokyo for three years, before he was challenged by a lower branch of Tokyo's secret police. More clearly: by one man, Kawatachi Akio, who had appeared from nowhere and announced that he would not rest until the last criminal influence of the city had been washed away. Now, after three more years of fighting, Mayagawa-san's empire was dying on its feet.
Kawatachi-san was an incredibly cunning and clever man. His webs were just as wide as Mayagawa-san's. No matter how hard the criminal boss tried, he could get only unsure reports about the man or his organized groups. The fact that the other man was in the same situation with his organization as Mayagawa-san didn't bring any comfort in the matter. The Yakuzas were destroyed, their leaders in prison and there were only three Fireflies left, having their hands full of work with the rebelling criminal groups. Only the heart of the Mayagawa Organization lived.
Eight children, called ironicly 'The Angels', were the only ones left to fight against the man who dared to cross his wits with the underworld. They were the heart of his knowledge and power, to the core fateful to him. They were spies, agents, dealers... everything he waited from them. He had taken most of them in in the age of ten, some year or few younger and trained their special gifts into perfection.
The number of the Angels had been Eight from the beginning. When one of them died on a mission he took a new kid in. However, again by the fault of Kawatachi's criminal searching patrol, this was impossible now. Like Mayagawa-san, Kawatachi-san depended his organization on children too. The Criminal boss couldn't risk taking in an enemy spy, for he knew nothing about Kawatachi's forces.
The doors flung open by force. A seventeen years old girl marched in, her face as a mask of determination. She was wearing red leather all over appended to the rest of her weirdness. She stopped in front of the older man's chair, on a safe range.
"We must pull back, sir", she said, her determination wavering in front of the man's steely eyes.
"Phoenix, I have not called you from your position. You have declined my orders. I hope you have a good reason to this." Mayagawa-san ignored her words. She drew a deep breathe as to spat out something unwise, but she chose othervice.
"Hawk's dead. There's no one to replace him. We're in a hopeless position, sir! You must tell us to pull back!" Her fear didn't touch the criminal boss, neither did the information of the other Angel's death in any other but professional way.
"We haven't got this information yet, where did you hear this?" Now she dropped her eyes defeatedly.
"I come straight from Crow, sir. He's on his way here in this minute."
"We shall wait for him then. I want an explenation for this arrangement from him."
"B-but..."
"No buts, Phoenix. Remember your place, it is not to question me."
"Y-yes, sir."
They waited in complete silence, if you didn't take the background noises in count. Fifteen minutes later the doors opened again. This time much more calmly, than before. A tall boy, dressed completely in black, stood straight in the middle of the two doors with an ironical smile on his quite beautiful face. He looked older than he was, thought only few people knew his true age. He walked very casually in letting the doors close behind him. The smile never left his face when he advanced the two, who werewaiting for him.
He stopped on the girl's side and answered to the stern look he got.
"Sir." His voice was steady, not at all afraid. His boss nodded at him.
"Crow, welcome back. I see you come alone."
"I see news travel very fast." The boy bowed very elegantly.
"It was your intension."
"Yes, sir."
"Tell me how this happened." The boy bowed again.
"Hawk acted brashly and didn't follow my instructions. If he hadn't died I would've shot him myself." Phoenix stared at him and hate started to boil inside her, but she didn't have the courage to say anything. "In this case, however the opposite side got him first. No information got out; he was shot before they could question him. The information I got pays back for this loss. It was only a bit of the information I had hoped to get from that house, but it is more than we knew before. I got a clear picture of the one who shot Hawk."
Crow stepped forward, to his boss' side laying a photograph to his hands. "Yagami Taichi, code-name Tiger. 17 years old. Attacker in the Odaiba Junior Soccer team, also a captain of the Odaiba High's soccer team. He's an average student; not bad, but not very bright either. Do you want his addres, sir? Or maybe his shoe size?" Mayagawa-san's eyes were warming up as the boy continued speaking. He laid his hand on the boy's shoulder smiling approvingly.
AN: In this point I must inform people that I know nothing about sports. So if the 'attacker' word isn't correct, please correct me.
"Good work, my boy. Have you started anything touching the subject?" Crow nodded seriously.
"Yes, sir. I have given this information on to Sparrow and relocated her. She is very close to this guy and is the best for this job, as you know."
"Yes, I see. Definately the kind of work I expected from you, Crow, as my second man."
"You are willing to forget Hawk's death over this stupid information!" Phoenix demanded flaming as the legendary bird she had chosen as her code-name "What are we to you! Do we mean nothing!" Her anger was faced with a pair of cold, unforgiving eyes that made her tremple and her anger cooled down in front of her fear.
"As long as I get what I want, one life, especially of a boy who doesn't follow his orders, is a small price for it."
She was saved by a quiet clearing of throat that made the man's eyes turn back to the tall boy.
"Excuse me, sir. I also want to use the Dragon in this." He met the look that wasn't approving anymore, with a strange calmness. "I know I am asking much, but we lack a player in this lilttle game. We need a weapon like the Dragon no matter how this turns out. No matter what else, Hawk was one of the best players, due to his skills." Mayagawa-san's look turned thoughtful as he observed the boy next to him.
"You have really thought of this already."
"Yes, sir. Desperate times need desperate solutions. I have a plan and, if Sparrow gets me the information I want, I'm going to suggest we activate it." Crow stood straight under the researching eyes and answered to the look with grim face.
"I shall think about this." The man's eyes narrowed as the boy shook his head apologetically.
"There's no time for that, sir. the time is only on our side if we use to our advantage."
"Are you sure of this, Crow?"
"Yes, sir, I am 96 percent sure that this will work and a hundret percent sure we will fail if we don't have the Dragon." An ironical smile graced the boy's lips again. Mayagawa-san nodded slowly.
"Very well, then. Release the Dragon."
"Yes, sir."
Crow nodded to the girl as he passed her on his way out. She hurried on his side and as the doors had once again closed behind them she grabbed his hand.
"What is theDragon, Crow? Why haven't we been informed of its existance?"
"Dragon is the deadliest thing on the side of an atome bom, but without radiation. This is all you have to know about it. As to why I haven't told you before... I'm sworn to secresy. I have no obligation what so ever to tell you everything I know. Eagle has trust on me, and I will make sure he will trust me till the end."
"B-but... how does it work!" She asked stopping on her tracks. "Who will use it!" Crow stopped too, turning around with that freaky smile on his lips.
"You must get back to your position, Phoenix, or Hawk's fate will be yours." He continued walking.
"When did you become so cold!" Phoenix shouted desperately after him.
"It was expected", was the quiet answer she got, echoing in the empty corridor. Crow had already vanished from sight, leaving his colleg to her doupts and fears. A lonely tear drop ran down on her cheek.
"I still want us to pull back... Am I the only one?"
AN: Now that was boring. The first chapter is a bit more living. Hope you'll read it!